Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-29
THE PEACH CROP.

Some Fine Fruit Raised i'm Connectf
cut-Mr wallace w. Wards Fine
| Orchard in Orange-The New York
Crop-No GIut in the Market at Pres
| emit.
Some fine peaches raised in Connection
| are in market It is said that the Connect
| cut peach is far more palatable than any
raised in the South. 1t is gratifying to find
| that the peach crop is restored to Connect1
| cut in such fine quality. The peach borel
| has destroyed thousands of trees in the State
during the past five or six years. One OF
the largest and finest orchards in this county,
and perhaps in the State, is that owned by
Superintendent Wallace w. Ward of the
West Haven horse railroad company. There
are 1, 500 trees bearing fruit. They present a
beautiful sight with their bending branches
heavily loaded with red checked mellow
fruit. Mr.. Wards men employed at the
orchard calculate that it will yield about ESQ
baskets. In New York the peach crop along
the Hudson river has reached that stage that
it is certainty that not only will the yield
be large through September and October and
the first two weeks of November, but that
the fruit will be the finest ever shipped. The
late fruit is remarkable alike for its rich
color, its juciness and its fneness of fibre.
Never before was the quality of fruit SO even
or SO tempting to the eye and the palate.
For a distance of nearly seventy miles
along the west bank of the Hudson, between
point south of Cornwall and two or three
miles north of Catskill, and from distances
varying from three to twelve miles inland,
the Concord grape is king. Nineteen-twen-
tieths of the crop-and, in the aggregate, it
will be an enormous one-wlll be composed
of Concords. Careful estimates show that
inHi i6r1a1 VIII n ehi as
high as 100 tons each.
The New York Mail and Express of Sat-
urday evening says:
The receipts for the last three days have
been the largest this season. The bulk of
the peaches now are from New Jersey. The
early Jerseys were not good this year, but
they are now in their prime. The change in
the weather has been of great help to the
fruit growers, as all the fruit now arriving is
in good condition and keeps we'll The
result is that prices are firm, and there
is no danger of glut in the market this
year.
Only the best fruit is sent and it must be
perfectly sound to stand the journey. Every
peach or pear is wrapped in piece of tissue
paper and is packed in boxes holding twenty
pounds. The fruit vendors, who are mostly
Italians, buy at the auctions and peddle the
fruit through the streets OF sell at their
stands California fruit has been scarce
heretofore and held at such high prices that
only the wealthy could indulge in it, but this
year it is abundant and within the reach of
everyone.
Paul G. Larue of Baptisttown, N. j., has
sold to peach dealer of this city twenty
acres of peaches for $4,000, and two other
parties in that vicinity have rented out twen-
ty acres of their farm land for ten years at
$12 per acre for the purpose of peach grow
ing. 1t is now believed in New Jersey that
with the aid of proper fertilizers the life of
the peach tree can be prolonged to double
the usual period, and next season will wit
ness peach boom in that State the equal of
which has never been seen in the country.
State offering So cents per basket for peaches
delivered at the railroad, which is equal to
80 cents in New York. The farmers are all
making money.